jun 30, 1965 - Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Description:
DescriptionEnds the national origin quotas created in the Immigration Act of 1924, replacing it with a seven-category system emphasizing family reunification and skilled workers being allowed to enter, more than quadrupling the immigration from Asian war-stricken countries
Reasoning
This overhauls the previous, more limiting and biased, immigration system into something much closer to what we have now, intended to help people and the country instead of get certain numbers of immigrants from certain places
Added to timeline:
Date:
jun 30, 1965
Now
~ 60 years ago